Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, Closedown, A Night Like This, Push, In Between Days, Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Bananafishbones, Lullaby, High, The End of the World, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, Jupiter Crash, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Prayers For Rain, Disintegration

"I encourage everyone to pop on a pair of headphones and listen to a few songs by The Cure – especially if you’ve never really paid close attention before. You’ll hear how a few simple melodic ideas can be blended together to form a much more complex whole. It’s really intriguing to listen to and learn from how each instrument works together, especially when the six-string bass is used: often Robert Smith might play a high melody while Simon Gallup plays a more traditional bassline, but sometimes these roles become cloudy: Gallup will play a more wandering melody while Robert plays something more anchored. The lines really become blurred between the roles of each instrument in service of the song. Robert Smith, Reeves Gabrels and Simon Gallop all have current signature model instruments to help them get their sound. Let’s have a look at them all."

Setlist: Tape / Open, Kyoto Song, A Night Like This, Push, In Between Days, Primary, Last Dance, Pictures of You, Closedown, High, Lovesong, Friday I'm in Love, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, The Hungry Ghost, One Hundred Years, End

Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, Closedown, A Night Like This, The Walk, Push, In Between Days, Doing the Unstuck, Friday I'm in Love, Bananafishbones, High, The End of the World, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, Jupiter Crash, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, Prayers For Rain, Disintegration

1st encore: It Can Never Be The Same, Burn, One Hundred Years, A Forest

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

From Noisey: Laurence ‘Lol’ Tolhurst met Robert Smith at the age of five. Years later, he’d become a founding member (and the original drummer) of The Cure. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, his first book, is an incredibly candid and personal memoir that looks back at his childhood friendship with Robert Smith, as well as his time in The Cure until, in 1989, he left during the recording of eighth album, Disintegration, due to his struggle with drugs and alchohol. Below is a world-exclusive first extract from the book–detailing the band’s first ever time in the USA–as well as a conversation with Tolhurst about the art and intention of writing it, the nature of memory, and the enduring power of his friendship with Smith and the rest of the band in the face of trying times and acrimonious lawsuits.

Read the interview and extract at Noisey. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys is out in the US on Oct. 11th, 2016. Pre-order here.

Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, Closedown, High, A Night Like This, All I Want, Push, In Between Days, Primary, Like Cockatoos, The End of the World, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, The Hungry Ghost, One Hundred Years, Disintegration